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A New York Times Notable Book of 2018"Expertly constructed . . . Griswold ― the kind of reporter who can convince a subject to let her reveal the message inside a Valentine card, and who notices what color somebody’s refrigerator is ― painstakingly builds the narrative amid its historical and social context . . . Her relentless, measured narration helped me understand my own blind spots ― that sadness over ruined views is a kind of class privilege, the outgrowth of a particular stance toward the land . . . Griswold’s brilliant choice is to focus tightly on a small group of residents and let the details of their predicament speak for themselves. Thoroughly reported and tightly paced, Amity and Prosperity is an essential document of the region’s latest go-round with the riches underfoot." ―Erika Howsare, Los Angeles Review of Books"Amity and Prosperity is at heart a David and Goliath story fit for the movies. It has everything but a happy ending: bucolic setting concealing fortune and danger; poor but proud locals who've endured sequential boom bust cycles of resource extraction . . . tough, reluctant victim-heroes . . . and a courtroom drama, as a tenacious husband-wife legal team takes on the industry and the state . . . [a] valuable, discomforting book" ―JoAnn Wypijewski, The New York Times"Riveting . . . Page-turner . . . If J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy famously portrayed the Rust Belt ethos of Appalachian transplants into southern Ohio, Amity and Prosperity tells with vivid detail the contours of daily life in Washington and Greene counties . . . Ms. Griswold is an energetic writer, and the characters she writes about are themselves colorful, raw and dogged . . . Amity and Prosperity becomes not only a glimpse into postindustrial small towns and the environmental consequences of fracking, but also a legal thriller worthy of any novel by John Grisham. ―Byron Borger, Pittsburg Post-Gazette“In her new book, Amity and Prosperity, journalist Eliza Griswold provides a deeply human counterpoint to this political fray. She takes on the decidedly fraught issue of energy extraction through a vivid, compassionate portrait of one family living in the long shadow of industry . . . Griswold chronicles these escalating horrors with disarming intimacy.†―Meara Sharma, The Washington Post"Powerful and deeply humane" ―The National Book Review "Her sensitive and judicious new book, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, is neither an outraged sermon delivered from a populist soapbox nor a pinched, professorial lecture. Griswold, a journalist and a poet, paid close attention to a community in southwestern Pennsylvania over the course of seven years to convey its confounding experience with hydraulic fracturing . . . What Griswold depicts is a community, like the earth, cracked open. . . . Parts of “Amity and Prosperity†read as intimately as a novel, though its insidious, slow-motion ordeal is all too real." ―Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times"Griswold creates a complex, elegantly written portrait of Stacey and a community ambivalent about the industry they hope can bring prosperity." ― BBC“Veteran journalist Eliza Griswold’s . . . Amity and Prosperity is part Erin Brockovich, part Hillbilly Elegy. You’ll be inspired by [Stacey Haney, Beth Voyles and Kendra Smith] who called B.S. on what was happening around them, pointing a finger at both money-hungry businessmen and day-tripping liberals studying them like specimens. Their galvanizing activism is proof that, to help someone, first you have to listen.†―Elisabeth Egan, Glamour"Griswold offers a compelling portrayal of Stacey Haney and her fight . . . Memorable . . An important addition to the emerging genre of works about fracking and its environmental and human costs. This will find large audiences among concerned citizens and warrants the attention of public officials as well as fans of J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy." ―Library Journal (Starred Review)"Griswold’s empathetic yet analytical account of Haney’s indefatigable role as advocate for justice is a thorough and thoroughly blood-pressure-raising account of the greed and fraud embedded in the environmentally ruinous natural-gas industry. As honest and unvarnished an account of the human cost of corporate corruption as one will find." ―Booklist (Starred Review)"Compelling and empathetic." ―Karen Olsson, Bookforum"With empathy and diligence, Griswold brings attention to the emotional and financial tolls Haney and her family endured in this revealing portrait of rural America in dire straits." ―Publisher's Weekly
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About the Author
Eliza Griswold is the author of The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, which won the 2011 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. Her translations of Afghan women’s folk poems, I Am the Beggar of the World, was awarded the 2015 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She has held fellowships from the New America Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and Harvard University, and in 2010the American Academy in Rome awarded her the Rome Prize for her poems. Currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University, she lives in New York with her husband and son.
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Product details
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Picador; Reprint edition (August 6, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1250215072
ISBN-13: 978-1250215079
Product Dimensions:
5.4 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
35 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#4,606,474 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I want to correct the record....Troy Jordan was not an EPACID agent. He was an inspector for the EPA RCRA program. He had expertise in oil and gas wells having worked in Oklahoma, but he was NOT a CID agent. I too was disheartened when he left to work for Chesapeake Energy, but thar's the way it goes. He was very concerned that among other things theState of PA would allow a gas well to be constructed within feet of a day care facility, among other things. So, his heart was in the work, trust me. To my knowledge no EPACID agent went to work for any gas drilling company. I will correct more records as I continue to read this book. Oh and another thing, hydrofracturing or fracking was a new process and the science had not caught up with the technology at the time the book was written. Gas drilling was largely the responsibility of the State, in this case PA. So, to investigate and hold someone or a company criminally liable was next to impossible. The statutes and regulations did not exist. So yes, CID agents came and went because there was so little they could do to make things whole. My heart goes out to the landowners as they got wholly screwed over.
Having read quite a few books about the environmental messes (with attendant health problems) that some companies have created, I found "Amity and Prosperity..." to be an interesting approach. Ms. Griswold is apparently a poet (among other skills), and she brings a poetic touch to the profoundly upsetting story about the health consequences of fracking in rural southwestern Pennsylvania -- the beginning of Appalachia. That has its pluses and minuses; she writes sparingly, which is good; the book is not weighted down by endless recitations of facts that could be tedious. On the other hand, there's a sort of haphazard, sketchy quality to the book, which is not so good. She touches upon any number of issues, but randomly; none of them is covered in a way that a "conventional" non-fiction work would likely handle things, so you finish the book sort of saying "so?"Still, it's good, but it's also a mixed bag of sorts. Worthwhile reading, but if you really want to read the quintessential book about industrial pollution and the consequences it can have on a community, try "A Civil Action" by Jonathan Harr; you won't forget it.
Excellent book on fracking and how it affected several families. Yes people in her community found jobs, made some money off gas leases, but at what cost to others such as the Haneys and the Voyles families? Another excellent book on the state of America and how some of the middle class people who work hard , play by the rules get screwed over by greed and endless delays in legal matters. To be fair, the company doing the drilling, did provide much needed money to this area, with jobs, leases and community support at fairs and parks and other donations. The Haneys and Voyles familes would not agree as they suffered from contaminated water and air. This book made me aware of the dangers of fracking and the cover ups of chemicals used in the process. How will fracking affect our country going forward? We shall see.
There is a disquieting aspect to this "crossover"work combining journalism and elegant storytelling. The seemingly bad people go unpunished, and the good protagonists do little more than survive. Still, it is an engrossing portrayal of the state, business, and individual actors in a drama focused on the consequences of fracking to the people affected, for good or had.
***SPOILERS*** The author has well-versed in the craft of writing and creates a vivid picture of how corruption and corporate greed can ruin the lives of those without the means to fight. I felt very sorry for the victims/plaintiffs in this matter and angry at Range Resources, the DEP, and the other defendants in this action. However, unless you want to close the book at the end, feeling quite depressed and convinced of the futility of ever fighting for what's right and winning, don't read this.
Well documented accounting of how the fracking industry affected several small towns that were already suffering unemployment and population loss. It is several women with families who take it upon themselves to challenge the companies doing the fracking, which was often done at a risk to themselves and their reputations. It is a modern day case of David and Goliath. Interesting reading, and because of the families involved, you want them to win.
Amity and Prosperity was a terrific read. As one who is facing the possibility of an oil and gas company drilling 19 wells within a mile of my home in order to frack beneath our subdivision - without the permission of a majority of residents - I found this an especially compelling story. I thought the author did an outstanding job of describing the individual players involved in this drama and how the oil & gas company’s actions affected their lives and their relationships with one another. And, while acknowledging some positive impacts (primarily for a few individuals), her description of how and why the company was able to operate as it did is disturbingly familiar to those of us facing their encroachment. Moreover, with laser precision, she also illuminated the impotence of the “justice†system to achieve anything remotely resembling actual justice in this situation, given the economic and political forces at work. And, given the history of the coal and steel industries in this particular rural community, the author elicited and amplified my own empathy for the families so powerfully impacted by this earth-shattering industry.
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